A look back at what was making news in the pages of the Cowra Free Press on Wednesday, November 30, Saturday, December 3, 1921.
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A Sudden Death. Well-known Resident Dies 'in Harness'
On Sunday our townsfolk were shocked Fix this textwhen the news became known that Mr. Charles Edward Gwilliam had breathed his last. The deceased gentleman was engaged working in his shop when he fell over on his bench and passed away peacefully. When discovered by Mr. Robt. Muir he still had an implement of his trade in his hand and was lying over on his bench, having in reality ''died in harness."
Agricultural School for Cowra,
CLAIMS OF THIS DISTRICT SEGOND TO NONE.
Public Meeting Decides to Press Same
On Saturday afternoon there was a very representative gathering at the Centennial Hall in response to an advertisement inserted by the Mayor (Ald. Golsby) with a view to furthering Cowra's claims for the establishment of an Agricultural High School here.
The meeting was called in consequence of a statement said to have Fix this textbeen made by Mr. Inspector Harkness that the visit of the Director of Education (Mr. Board) to Parkes, Forbes and Cowra was with a view to establishing an Agricultural High School at one of those centres to serve the central west.
Cowra in Days Gone Bye.
The name Cowra in the Aboriginal tongue signifies "Rocks," hence the town derives its name from the rocky eminence, now styled Bellvue Hill, which overlooks it on its northern side, and from which, by the way, a magnificent view of the surrounding country may be obtained. The surveyor who laid out the town was happy in his selection of a site, because in the spring-time Cowra, from the western side of the Lachlan can hold its own in picturesqueness with any town in the State. For many years the place made little or no headway, its first imputus being deFix this textrived from the gold mining rush to Lambing Flat (Young) in 1860, the traffic through the town at that time to the new El Dorado being very considerable. At that time the Lachlan was frequently in flood, hence the passage of the stream was at times an unsurmountable difficulty.
The late Mr. George Lockyer, then in the employ of the late Mr. Ousby, senr., proprietor of the Fitzroy Hotel, perceiving there was money to be made in the conveyance of wayfarers across the river, procured a boat and turned his seafaring knowledge to acFix this textcount, and while so engaged had many unique and hazardous experiences.
On one occasion he actually contrived with his frail craft to convey the mail coach, mails. passengers. luggage etc., across the turbulent stream when it was running a banker. The horses were of course compelled to swim across.